Or, at least, we could possibly host Sang Sacre somewhere else.

The problem is, of course, that consolidating or eliminating low use threads doesn't do much for our technical problem. Though it may help a little, in that it may eliminate the occasional single SQL connection here or there.

I want LotR to keep its own thread because I don't want to get spoiled for movies I intend to get around to watching eventually (which is why I've never been in the movies thread) just to find the LotR discussion.

But where would we put Firefly movie spoilers?

This is what I don't like about calling the FF spoilers thread a spoiler thread. If/when movie spoilers start appearing, and if they appear before the DVDs are released, we actually have no place to put them, unless we want to displace the Brits who don't want movie spoilage, or forbid them from talking about their full canon, until it's NAFDA safe.

One last time (exasperated at myself for continuing - not Sue or anyone here)

Change FF Spoilers to reflect the activity that goes on in it - namely, call it Firefly UK or Firefly Full Monty or something, and indicate in the slug that it's for all 16* episodes aired in the UK.

Keep NAFDA Firefly as is and continue indicating it's for all 13* episodes that have aired in US.

When the DVDs are released and have been out a reasonable amount of time, and assuming that happens pre-film, we can get rid of the UK and NAFDA designation, and have one, united FF thread.

Then - if ever a need arises for a FF movie spoiler thread, we create it if we need it. Joss has to not only write the movie, but cast it and sell it. We're hanging onto a spoilers thread that may have no movie spoilers for a year or more.

I need a dose of something. I'm clearly nuts and have issues.

eta - the * is to indicate, I actually have no idea of the correct number of episodes. The correct numbers may be 13 and 10, or 700 and 43.

As one of the remaining occasional Farscape posters, I wholly agree that the thread can be rolled in with other Fantasy/Sci-Fi shows that are also getting lower volume posting (or lower volume posting for the show they are ostensibly for).

I do think it would be feasible to consolidate the Smallville thread, Farscape, and Due South without much trauma.

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I mean, ok, yes, that makes sense. Even though I don't watch Smallville or Due South. What do you mean this isn't all about me?

OTOH, I wonder if combining those three subcommunities wouldn't generate more posts overall, since such a combined thread looks, to me, an awful lot like a General TV thread.

OTOH, I wonder if combining those three subcommunities wouldn't generate more posts overall, since such a combined thread looks, to me, an awful lot like a General TV thread.

What if we did it and just didn't tell anyone other than the people who actually post there? That could totally work. Thread management through secrecy!

Er, yeah, being serious now, that's a good point. Once you turn it into "Fannish TV" or whatever it might well attract posters and posts that the individual topics don't attract now. Um. Backing off to the Buffy end of things:

Buffy Spoilers Lite can go. That should clearly show up in any consolidation proposal.

I haven't heard any objections to the idea of closing Buffy Quotables once the deathmatches are over.

We need Previously to discuss the Angel reruns. There's no logical reason that we can't just close the active Buffy topic and have all future Buffy conversation in Previously, but the idea makes me a little sad.

Spoilers is Buffy-and-Angel both, right? So that would just go on the way it is.

If Sang Sacre isn't generating any posts, then it's not a drain on the system right now. It kind of comes and goes. I'd rather it stayed, but it seems like it's run down now.

Katie - if we're having 3 threads for 13-16 episodes of Firefly, I'd be really unhappy if all discussion of Buffy got relegated to a previously thread at the Buffistas board. I think Buffy, all 144 episodes still ought to get its own thread.

Right now, Buffy 4 is at 4,902 messages. I think we should let it play out, and decide after it gets to 10,000 whether we want an independent Buffy 5, or if Buffy discussion can go into Previously.

Putting the Angel Quotables in a general ME Quotables thread will make that thread spoilery, which will make it pretty much a de facto Angel Quotables thread. I don't have a problem with that, but UnAmericans might. I dunno, are a lot of quotes added long after the show's original airing?

I don't see the problem, as, well, quotables has ALWAYS been NAFDA.